Description
A book with bestseller potential - Edvard Munch, a key figure of European modernism, and one of his most important themes: angst. Everyone knows it and fears it - regardless of cultural and social background - yet it is also essential to life, as a driving force and source of energy. Hardly any painter has captured this aspect of the human condition so powerfully as Munch - an artist whose unique body of work leaves no one unmoved.
A pioneer of modernism - and a comprehensive and opulent document of a universal emotion! Working outside the academy, Munch as able to address the raw, wild, and immediate aspects of human existence.
A book with bestseller potential - Edvard Munch, a key figure of European modernism, and one of his most important themes: angst. Everyone knows it and fears it - regardless of cultural and social background - yet it is also essential to life, as a driving force and source of energy. Hardly any painter has captured this aspect of the human condition so powerfully as Munch - an artist whose unique body of work leaves no one unmoved.
About the Author
Kerstin Drechsel is head of the graphic arts collection and curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
Diana Kopka is consultant in the general directorate and also curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
Florence Thurmes is general director of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
Sina Tonn is Co-Curator of the project Edward Munch. Angst.
Book Information
ISBN 9783777446486
Author Kerstin Drechsel
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Weight(grams) 1320g
A pioneer of modernism - and a comprehensive and opulent document of a universal emotion! Working outside the academy, Munch as able to address the raw, wild, and immediate aspects of human existence.
A book with bestseller potential - Edvard Munch, a key figure of European modernism, and one of his most important themes: angst. Everyone knows it and fears it - regardless of cultural and social background - yet it is also essential to life, as a driving force and source of energy. Hardly any painter has captured this aspect of the human condition so powerfully as Munch - an artist whose unique body of work leaves no one unmoved.
About the Author
Kerstin Drechsel is head of the graphic arts collection and curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
Diana Kopka is consultant in the general directorate and also curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
Florence Thurmes is general director of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.
Sina Tonn is Co-Curator of the project Edward Munch. Angst.
Book Information
ISBN 9783777446486
Author Kerstin Drechsel
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Weight(grams) 1320g
